Flop Soup

Send us Fan Mail This week, Flop Soup's Queening Out series continues for pride month as Justin investigates the flops of the week with beloved friend of the pod Jesse Tabit . On our docket this week, of course, is our flop king of the moment Justin Timberlake and his run-in with "Gen Z Cop." There's also a bunch of music related flops this week, like Katy Perry beginning to te...

Send us Fan Mail As Cassandra continues her European honeymoon excursion, Justin is joined by flop-enthusiast Thom Hilton (writer & director of the currently touring short film "Matinee Baby" ) to discuss and unpack what's currently flopping in culture this week.  On the flop docket:  Everyone is on steroids! The 2024 Tony's happened to us CHIPOTLE BOYS are taking over... o...

Send us Fan Mail Hi Divas, It's officially pride month, so you know what that means: kicking Cassandra off the pod and bringing producer David on to dunk on pride flops. This week: Target not being gay enough, Caitlyn Jenner having too many gay rights, intersectionality snafus, cringey pride campaigns of yesteryear, and the current state of ERG (Employee Resource Group) affairs. Flopmania!! A...

Send us Fan Mail HI FLOPS! This week Justin is joined by beloved friend of the pod Kyle Frattini to cohost and react to the new trailer for the WICKED MOVIE , which we have to admit... might actually be real! More on that later! Also included in this week's soup: Things get science fiction-coded as Avril Lavigne denies the switched-with-a-clone-named-Melissa allegations and Dorinda Medley get...

Send us Fan Mail Hi FlopTarts, Did you miss us?! We missed you. Thanks for being patient with us as we all navigate Corporate Jobs USA while producing a podcast. This week we've got some hot hot topics for y'all: Dua Lipa, Idea of You, Eurovision, MTV awards, and -- of course -- veneers. So much trying to achieve greatness, so little hitting of ~le mark~. xoxo, Cassandra, Justin, & D...

Send us Fan Mail Restaurant reservation culture is flopping this week in a big way! Of course, so are plenty of other things. This week, we also unpack why Cassandra is the only girl in the world who doesn't love Challengers and why Billie Eilish is disgusted by whales. Plus: Trump's likely VP pick Kristi Noem is killing puppies (???) and Ellen Degeneres is still mean and still gay. Ther...

Send us Fan Mail Hi Flop Tarts! We're flopping this week because we are the one millionth podcast to utter the phrase "tortured podcasters department" and Taylor Swift is flopping because this new album is mid as hell. That's right: we're discussing the Tortured Poets Department. We're also talking about a lot of other singers who are girl, what it takes to be a succe...

Send us Fan Mail Hi Flop Tarts, We're back to our regularly scheduled programming this week! Cassandra & Justin are flopping, society is flopping, and celebrity chef David Chang is flopping. We discuss the recent Momofuku chili crisp controversy wherein David Change's company sent cease-and-desists to a bunch of chili crisp companies in an effort to protect his copyright and then eve...

Send us Fan Mail Hellllllo Flop Tarts,  This week is Cassandra's birthday week (Happy Birthday!) so Producer David stepped in for her to cover all things queer pop star. Today's main focus, aside from eclipse chatter, is the attempted rebrand of Jojo Siwa. From child star to. non-child non-star, Jojo has made quite the progression in the past few days with her release of Karma.  Tune in...

Send us Fan Mail ~you're downloading and listening to this episode~ *in hypnosis voice* This week the Flop Stars are taking a trip to Euphoria High to learn about the new mess brewing behind the scenes in the Sam Levinson Televised Universe. Then, we process, digest, react, and respond to the latest deranged personal essay taking the internet by storm, "The Case for Marrying an Older Man...

Send us Fan Mail Flop Soup coming in HOT this week covering the "disappearance" of Kate Middleton, Prince William's Mistress, said mistress's Gay Husband, and more (ALLEGEDLY!). Plus: It's St. Patrick's Day, you little leprechaun divas, so we watched IRISH WISH! And we did not understand what was going on with those accents <3 And, of course, a gorgeous oeuvre of q...

Send us Fan Mail Hi Floptarts, Did you miss us? We missed you too. This week, we're back with a heaping serving of flops. From a Young Sheldon Sequel Series to JVN educating us on the entire Middle Ages to car rights in Los Angeles...so much was promised to us as a society, so little was delivered. Show Notes: How we're flopping this week: Cassandra - my block is flopping Justin - loves...

Send us Fan Mail Hey Flop Tarts! Hope this podcast finds you well! We just wanted to double click into JLo's music video and provide y'all with some updates: it was a nothing burger stacked on some more -- you guessed it -- nothing. But don't worry, that nothingness is buttressed by our other hot flopic this week, covering the Bon Appetit Receipts column in which a wealthy music con...

Send us Fan Mail This week we're talking about February's Month of Flops at the Cinema: Lisa Frankenstein, the Bob Marley biopic, but most importantly: Madame Web herself and the year's first true box office bomb Argylle. Plus, we go in ON that NYC woman who wrote a Cut column about how she got scammed into putting $50,000 into a shoebox and handing it over to a stranger. One of our...

Send us Fan Mail This week we're doing SPORTS (sorta kinda)! We're talking about Taylor Swift's Super Bowl, about Usher's halftime show, and most importantly: the Nickelodeon Super Bowl simulcast. Plus: how about those ads? What is Temu? And is Kim Petras's "Slut Pop" really more like "Slut Flop"? Quick Flops: Hailey Beiber debuts chocolate syrup hair B...

Send us Fan Mail Team Flop Soup return to the red carpet this week to uncover the flops of music's biggest night - the Grammys! Though we manage to discuss many other happenings (like the "music catastrophe" tribute, having AI on the red carpet, and SZA's Mastercard commercial), can you really talk about music without ranting about Taylor Swift these days? The answer is no. But...

Send us Fan Mail This week, the internet delivered a heaping serving of flops. Gays doing colonization work to build a New Fire Island, J.Lo (Jennifer Lopez) achieving her dreams of being in love and finding a therapist in Fat Joe, and Marina Abramovic performing the ultimate act of capitalism: starting a beauty line. Perplexed? Us too. Tune in to learn all the juicy deets. Show Notes: Quick Flops...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Flop Soup, we're talking about celebrity privacy being in its flop era (on instagram, at awards shows, in songs), and the floppy, kinda fake Gen Z age panic (as reported by the floppy NY Post). Plus: more flops ranging from Madame Web's Ocean Spray costume reveal to a tiny trash crisis in Philadelphia. Show Notes: Quick Flops: Madame Web Ocean Spray Bottle J...

Send us Fan Mail On this week's Flop Soup, we're talking about the water bottle sensation herself: Stanley Cups. Who is she? Where did she come from? And most importantly: which pop star does she remind us of? Plus: the Golden Globes were covered in flop sweat, thanks to underwhelming and mostly un-funny host Jo Koy. Tune in to hear Justin & Cassandra discuss these hot flops and so m...

Send us Fan Mail Flop Soup is a podcast about pop culture and flop culture.  Every week on Flop Soup, your hosts Justin Crosby & Cassandra Kyriazis talk about what's flopping in culture - entertainment, politics, even our own lives. We lay it all out and decide once and for all: what's a flop and what's not. It's kind of like The Daily if The Daily was weekly and also...fun...

Send us Fan Mail Our final episode of the year!!!! What a journey it's been. Thankfully, things KEEP flopping so we are here this week to discuss! And, don't worry dear Flop Tarts, we'll keep the Flop Soup coming in 2024. This week, the gays were flopping all over the headlines. Our two hottest flop topics include the Senate Sex Tape that's been lighting up gay group chats acro...

Send us Fan Mail As always, MUCH to discuss this week. For our quick flops, we have people throwing things at singers again, Russian propaganda on Cameo, and sooo much more. Then,  for our hot flopics, we take a field trip to the ruins of Gag City to report on what exactly happened here, and what it means for Pink Friday 2. After, we journey into Selena Gomez’s fiery comment section and try to fig...

Send us Fan Mail On this week's Flop Soup we do a recap of everything that is and has been (former, iconic) Congressman George Santos, we parse whether or not Taylor Swift's publicist Tree Paine speaking out against celebrity gossip Instagram Deux Moi means Deux Moi is flopping or dominating the culture right now, and most importantly: we dive into the hellish merch that has been created...

Send us Fan Mail Hello FlopTarts, we're back this week with another week of inevitable, inimitable flops! Show Notes: Quick Flops: Beyonce "Alien Superstar" Cocktail that looks bad Jimmy Kimmel Hosting Oscars Again UGH Susan Sarandon's Son says "no more of my mom's boobs" Swifties wrongly predict Reputation TV announcement Bradley Cooper Hangover 4 Emerald Fennel...

Send us Fan Mail Flop Soup has a holiday season treat for YOU! This week, we took to the phone lines to answer calls from our listeners and wow - they delivered! In this flop-provoking episode you'll find in-depth discussions on: the state of thrift shop culture, Wicked 20th Anniversary Photoshoot culture, Real Housewives podcast culture, pumpkin culture, and soooo much more. THANK YOU dear l...